Improvement in base-burning stoves



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

' JOHN T. DURKEE, OF JANESVILLE, WISCONSIN.

IMPROVEMENT IN BASE-BURNING STOVES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 129,721, dated July 23, 1872.

SPECIFICATION. I, JOHN T. DURKEE, of J anesville, in the county of Rock and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain Improvements in Coal-Stoves,

of which the follciwin g is a specification:

My invention relates to the construction and arrangement of the ash-pit thereof, so that it may be used as an oven when desired.

Figure 1 is a longitudinal vertical section. Fig. 2 is also a'longitudinal vertical section, drawn at right angles with Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a plan or top view of the furnace and the outer walls of the said stove, the said walls being separated in the plane of the top of the said furnace.

A is the said wall. I) is a reservoir. 0 is a furnace. at d are diviug-flues. E E are chambers. f f are also chambers, into which the heat descends through the said flues, and, passing in the direction of the arrows, through the apertures h h in the partition-walls g g, enters into the chamber Gin the front part of the said stove, and thence passes down through the said chamber G to the rear and escapes through the pipe R; all of which are common devices. I is the said oven, when used as such. L is an ash-pan. Now, when the said pan is inserted into its highest position upon the points S S, as seen in Fig. 2, it forms an oven below and an ash-pit above the said pan. N is the bottom of the said oven and the top of the said chamber Gr.

Claim.

I claim as my invention- So constructing the ash-pit of the said stove that it may be used as an oven, when desired, by placing the ash-pan L midway between the floor of the ash-pit and the bottom of the said furnace O, as described, and for the purpose hereinbefore set forth.

JOHN T. DURKEE.

Witnesses DANIEL GLow, A. A. JACKSON. 

